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w. M. JACKSON. SLITTING ATTACHMENT FOR CIGARS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT-26,192I.

Reissued July 25, 1922.

WITNESSES INVENTOR A TTOHNEYS UNITED STATES WALTER M. JACKSON, or'NEwYoRK, N, Y.

PATENT OFFICE.

SLI'I'TING ATTAC MENT ro a CIGARS.

Specification of Rcissued Letters Patent. R ei' ssud' J ly 25 1922 Original No. 1,345,677, dated July 6, 1920, Serial No. 307,516, filed June 30, 1919. Application for reissue filed September 26, 1921. Serial No. 503,458.

To all whom it may concern: I Be it known that I, WALTER M. JACKSON, a citizen of the United States, and'a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan. in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Slitting Attachment for Cigars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to attachments adapted to be applied to the ends of cigars for the purpose of puncturing and slitting the end. of the cigar.

An object of the invention is to provide a slitting attachment for slitting and puncferred to adapted to be applied to the end of a cigar and to be removed from the cigar,

when the latter is to be used by a smoker, and wherein the act of removal of the attachment punctures or slits the cigar end or the cigar wrapper.

A further object of the invention is to provide, as a new article of manufacture, a cigar to which, when packed and sold to the consumer, is applied a slitting device on the end thereof which as it is being pulled off the cigar will cause a slitting of the surface of the wrapper adjacent the end of the cigar.

Other objects of the invention willappear more fully hereinafter.

The invention consists substantially in the construction, combination, location an'd arrangement of parts, all as will be more fully hereinafter set forth, as shown in the accompanying drawing and finally pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 is a View in plan of a slitting attachment embodying the invention in its blanked out form before bending the arms and cutting points into position for applica tion to a cigar end.

Figure 2 is a side view of the end of the cigar showing the attachment applied thereto.

Figure 3 is an end view of the cigar with the attachment in place.

. Figure 4 is a view in perspective showing the application of the attachment to the end of a cigar.

cutter infection or disease.

The same part vis designated by the same reference numeral wherever it occurs throughout the several views.

Inthe use of cigars it is a common practice to cut off or remove that end of the cigar which is held in the mouth in order to rupture the wrapper ordinarily applied as the e terior coveringof the cigar to enable the clgar to properly draw when lighted at the other end thereof. Sometimes the end of the cigar is detached or removed by the smoker biting off the end, and it is a com mon practice in cigar stores to employ cigar cutters for this purpose. In addition, it is also a common practice for individual smokers to carry cigar cutters for such use. The use ofpublic cigar cutters is objectionable for various reasons. In the first place the smoker will frequently put the end of the cigarin his mouth before using the public of transmitting to subsequent users of the Moreover, the purchaser of cigars does not always desire to cut off all of the cigars of his purchase, preferring ordinarily to leave the wrapper of the cigar intact until he desires to smoke, and. when he uses the cigar a public cigar cutter may notbe available. In the case of individually owned cigar cutters the smoker may not have such a cutter with him at the time he desires to smoke. v

It is among the special purposes of my present invention to avoid these and other objections and to provide a simple attachment adapted to be applied'to cigars and sold to the purchasers along with the cigars, and which in the act of removal thereof from the cigar efiects the desired slitting of the cigar end without necessitating the use of public or other cutters, each cigar being equipped with its own slitting attachment.

In carrying out my invention I stamp the attachment out of any suitable thin sheet of metal, such, for example, as aluminum, tin, steel, or the like. In its stamped out form as shown in Fig. 1 the device includes a central body portion 5 with a plurality of radiating arms 6, each armhaving. at its extremity a pointed knife edge cutter 7. The blank thus stamped out is completed by punchinga central opening 8 through the body 5 of the device, leaving projections 9 extending from the inner face of the body portion. It is, however, quite possible to :cigar cutter and hence the danger is incurred provide this slitting attachment without stamping out the body portion to provide the projections cigar wrapper 1n the act of withdrawing the attachment from the cigar is effected by the rearwardly disposed slitting edges 7 as the attachment is pulled; oh? the cigar. The knife edge points 7 are bent into preferably right angular relation with respect to*the planes ofi their respective arms 6 and the arms are bent into position to. engage over the end of a. cigar indicated at 10 when the attachmentis applied thereto with the cutting prongs or projections 7 presented toward the body of the cigar.

In use'the device is slipped over the end ot the cigar with the body projections 9 penetrating the extreme end of the cigar and with the cigar end embraced by the arms 6 oii the device andwith the cutti'ng prongs 7 penetrating into the body of the cigar.

With the projections 7. penetrating into the body of. the cigar it is apparentthat the slitting edges from. Whenit is desired to light and smoke the cigar the slitting attachmentis simply drawn "off. the end: of? the cigar, leaving the extreme end thereof puncture-dab y the pro;

jections 9, and leaving lines of slitsthrough the cigar wrapper caused by dragging the cutting projections or extensions 7 longi- .VVhen the device is Withdrawn from the cigarend the puncturing and slittingof 9, since the slitting of the 7 will eHectivel-y slit the cigar as the attachment is withdrawn therethe end of the cigar enables the cigar to effectively draw without necessitating any other cutting orremoval or biting off of the cigar end to secure that result.

Having now set forth the objects and nature of my invention, and a construction embodying the principles; thereof, what'I claim asnew and useful, and of my owninvention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

1'. An attachment for cigars, com rising a bodyportion to be applied against t e end of the cigar and having projections to penetrate into the end of the cigar, and arms enibracing the cigar end, said arms having cutting points and slitting edges adapted to penetrate into the body ot the cigar and slit the same as the attachment is withdrawn from the cigar.

2. A sheet metal puncturing and slitting V ttachment for cigars consisting of a body portion having projections formed; therein and extending'from one face thereof, said body portion adapted to be, applied against the end; surface of the cigar and the pr'oijee tions thereon to penetrate into such end surface, said body portion also having arms to engage over and embrace the cigar end,

each of said arms formed with a; cutting point or projection. at the extremity thereof, saidcutting points or extremities bent into substantially right angular relation to the planes of the arms and adapted to penetrate the body of the cigar whereby the withdrawal of the attachment from the cigar leaves the end surfiace of the cigar punctured and; the exterior surface of; the cigar end slitted: lon itudinally.

WAL ER M. JACKSQN. 

